Tag Archives: Nasion Chamoru

I often try to think back to when I first started as a Chamorro activist. My father says it is tied to experiences I had in South Africa, when our family lived in Swaziland for two years and apartheid was still in effect. My mother says it is tied to racist experiences I had while … Continue reading →

Writing about colonization in action can be a hysterical albeit terrifying experience. It is something that has consumed my work as an activist and a scholar for more than a decade. It reminds me of a Dilbert comic from long ago, where the pointy haired boss tells a worker that the collar he is putting … Continue reading →

In 2004, for the 60th anniversary of Guam’s Liberation I worked with a friend of mine to produce the list below of “10 Things to Think About This July.” It was passed out at events for a few years as a flyer, it was forwarded around via emails for a few years. I even got … Continue reading →

When the protest group Nasion Chamoru first emerged decades ago it created a conflict in the minds of people on Guam. On the one hand you had a group of people who were emphatically embodying “Chamorro” things. They were speaking Chamorro, fighting for Chamorro lands and Chamorro rights, and even sometimes sported ancient Chamorro jewelry. … Continue reading →

Categorization and the assigning of meaning to things are a basic feature of life. It is something that everyone does. What is always missing and rarely considered however is the fact that although we are always compelled to categorize and divide and assign, the categories that we create are never universal, they always change. We … Continue reading →

The latte stones that we find at Angel Santos Memorial Latte Stone Park in Hagatna are some of the most iconic on Guam. They are larger than most on island and found in a central location in the historic Hagatna area. Tens of thousands of tourists visit them each year. The late Angel Santos, a … Continue reading →